How to use "shock" in a sentence
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I sometimes go into shock
'You mean you're not in shock already?'
But this time he got a terrible shock
In our violent times it is difficult to imagine the shock and horror that the Whitechapel murders caused in 1888
It affected him like an electric shock
This gave Valjean a shock
Afterwards, they sat together on the garden bench in a state of shock, neither of them speaking
Jean Valjean, at that moment, was in a state of terrible shock
Finally, in a state of shock and confusion, the young man said, 'Why have you told me all this? No one forced you to.'
However, Marius had a shock when he saw the man - he did not recognize him at all! He was an old man with a big nose, glasses and neat grey hair
He asked her gently, but his words still came as a shock
A wave of shock hit her
Trembling from the cold, and from the shock, and from unhappiness
Sala was in shock
'It was rather a shock to us too,' Beatrice said
'But it was a terrible shock to Maxim
When people have a great shock, they feel nothing at first
'This news is a shock to you, of course?'
'Of course it is a shock
This has been a shock to me, you know
Her death was a great shock
It's been a dreadful shock to me,' Favell said
After the initial shock, after the funeral, she had begun to cope with the trauma
Fighting with Michael, coping with the shock of separation and divorce, grieving for Danny, and putting together the show with Joel Bandiri had filled her days and nights, so she'd had no chance to think of romance.
A powerful shock treatment that'll finally blow away all my lingering doubts
She gasped in shock.
Elliot's Mercedes was parked at the far curb, and she was six or eight feet from the car when the sudden outward-sweeping shock of the explosion shoved her forward
He was safe, close behind her, knocked off balance by the force of the shock wave, staggering forward, but unhurt.
"We were swindled?" Tina asked, feigning shock, buying time.
Evans's surprised expression turned to shock
He nearly cried out in shock and alarm at what he saw inside.
An image of his victim's torn throat exploded in his memory, and a shock wave of nausea overwhelmed him.
"It was just the shock."
Dombey, sensing her shock, said, "He's emaciated
The discovery was a great shock to me
'The shock?' I suggested.
Then Miss Marple gave us both a shock as she said, 'Has Mrs Protheroe confessed to the crime now?'
And all the time he was keeping a second family - a former servant, and five children! What a terrible shock to his wife and daughter.'
And early in the twentieth century, the great shock came.
I saw shock changing to horror on the faces of the people around me, and there was a general movement backwards
It was some time before my shock would let me struggle up into a drier position, or think of the great danger I was in.
At first I thought a house had fallen across the road, but when I climbed up on the ruins I saw, with a shock, this great machine lying, with its tentacles bent and twisted, among the ruins that it had made
I cannot describe my feelings of shock and joy at that moment
This was a great shock to me